Sentences with phrase «plasma physicists»

Do you realize how many plasma physicists» heads you just made spin 1080 degrees with that statement?

«How they lived I don't know,» says Valentin Smirnov, a director of Triniti and one of Russia's leading plasma physicists.

Two young plasma physicists at Chalmers University of Technology have now taken us one step closer to a functional fusion reactor.

A device based on a 100 - PW laser could be at least 10 times shorter and cheaper than the roughly $ 10 billion machine now envisaged, says Stuart Mangles, a plasma physicist at Imperial College London.

The data may be quite important for another reason, says Philippe Escoubet, a plasma physicist at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

That time scale of a few minutes fits well with models of the circuit's behavior, says plasma physicist Goran Marklund of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

He is an experimental plasma physicist with interests in the basic physics of plasma confinement and configuration optimization.

Director Holzworth is a plasma physicist who is interested in what happens in the outer edges of the atmosphere.

Storms on the sun catapult charged particles into space at tremendous speeds, says plasma physicist Ruth Bamford of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, England.

James Chen, a plasma physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., says that predicting the future might not be so simple.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

Plasma physicist Michael Keidar, director of the George Washington Institute for Nanotechnology in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues have a five - year, $ 445,000 grant to investigate the physical effects of plasma on the body.

Francis «Rip» William Perkins Jr., a pioneering plasma physicist whose contributions to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) ranged from seminal advances in fusion energy and astrophysical research to the education of a generation of scientists, died on July 26 in Boulder, Colo..

Speaking at a Ronald E. Hatcher Science on Saturday lecture on March 5 at the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Synakowski traced the discoveries that have led to this moment as well as his own personal journey as a plasma physicist.

Ronald C. Davidson, a pioneering plasma physicist for 50 years who directed the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) during a crucial period of its history and was a founding director of the Plasma Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), passed away on May 19 at his home in Cranbury, New Jersey, due to complications from pneumonia.

«I love telling mind - blowing facts, like every time we do a shot at NIF, we are one of the hottest places in the solar system,» said experimental plasma physicist Tammy Ma (NIF implosions reach peak temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Centigrade — more than five times hotter than the core of the Sun).

Not exact matches

But solar physicists don't know where the plasma gets enough energy to accelerate away from the massive, magnetic sun.

The physicists calculated that tiny fibers called «fractals,» because they look the same when viewed at different scales, can trap electrons dislodged from the interior surfaces by other electrons zooming in from the plasma.

Over lunch in the staff cafeteria, theoretician John Ellis explains that this idea has already fallen out of fashion, mainly because that theory supposed to be a quark - gluon plasma smooth, disconnected gas, but earlier this year, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory caught a glimpse of the quark - gluon plasma and discovered that it looks much more like a thick, viscous liquid.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have simulated the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reacPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have simulated the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reacplasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reactions.

Until then, physicists will scour Petawatt's data for clues about how so - called relativistic plasmas behave in space.

«This study is an incremental step toward a fuller understanding of turbulence,» said physicist Stewart Zweben, lead author of the research published in the journal Physics of Plasmas.

When the laser pulse has ionized the air, a current begins to pass between the electrodes and, as a result, the physicists are able to assess the appearance of the plasma clusters formed under the influence of the light that has formed into filaments.

The New Calculus Other physicists, meanwhile, are employing string theory methodologies in their study of extreme matter states — from the intensely hot plasmas produced in particle colliders to materials created in laboratories at temperatures close to absolute zero.

A computer code used by physicists around the world to analyze and predict tokamak experiments can now approximate the behavior of highly energetic atomic nuclei, or ions, in fusion plasmas more accurately than ever.

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reacPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reacplasma that fuels fusion reactions.

These particles, which physicists inject as neutral atoms, are ionized inside the plasma and increase its thermal energy.

He explains the extent to which physicists» understanding of the mechanisms governing turbulent transport in such high - temperature plasmas has been critical in improving the advances towards harvesting fusion energy.

Physicists found in the 1980s that toroidally shaped plasmas of the tokamak type offer a path to low turbulence thanks to their ability to self - organise.

Theoretical physicists Dam Thanh Son and Andrei Starinets, for example, collaborated on an idea that used black hole math to predict the viscosity of an ultrahot gas, or plasma, that forms in certain particle collider experiments.

Although the notion of the plasma antenna has been knocked around in labs for decades, Ted Anderson, president of Haleakala Research and Development — a small firm in Brookfield, Mass. — and physicist Igor Alexeff of the University of Tennessee — Knoxville have recently revived interest in the concept.

Physicists have long puzzled over whether black holes destroy information or conserve it — now a proposed lab experiment could use a plasma wave to find out

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

... A team of German and Russian physicists have pioneered a new technique for particle acceleration, called proton - driven plasma - wakefield acceleration (PWFA).

«There has been some diplomatic pushing and shoving behind the scenes,» says Dale Meade, a physicist emeritus with the U.S. DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

This had been predicted as a relic from when hot ionized plasma of the early universe first cooled sufficiently to form neutral hydrogen and allow space to become transparent to light, and its discovery led to general acceptance among physicists that the Big Bang is the best model for the origin and evolution of the universe.

The goal of fusion physicists is to use the heat from a fusing plasma to keep the reaction going indefinitely, without the need to pump in external energy.

«We have made, by far, the most precise extraction to date of a key property of the quark - gluon plasma, which reveals the microscopic structure of this almost perfect liquid,» says Xin - Nian Wang, physicist in the Nuclear Science Division at Berkeley Lab and managing principal investigator of the JET Collaboration.

But the evidence that they had created the plasma was not conclusive, and it may be another year before Brookhaven physicists are confident enough to declare success.

As plasma is ejected from the sun's surface, its temperature skyrockets — and so far physicists have not been able to explain why

Physicists running a competing experiment at the CERN lab outside Geneva announced that they had created such a plasma in 2000.

That form of matter, a superdense state called a quark - gluon plasma, has long been a goal of particle physicists.

Solar physicist Bart De Pontieu of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, and his colleagues report in the 7 January issue of Science that they can trace jets of plasma, or ionized gas, rising into the corona.

Physicists aim to solve this mystery by mapping the coronal loops: streams of hot, glowing plasma that follow magnetic field lines...

«This new way of looking at burning plasma physics allowed us to understand this previously impenetrable problem,» said Mr Qu, a theoretical physicist in ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering.

Shi developed the paper with assistance from co-authors Nat Fisch, director of the Program in Plasma Physics and professor and associate chair of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, and Hong Qin, a physicist at PPPL and executive dean of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China.

This week on the podcast, we'll enter the fascinating world of plasma — not the blood kind, the physics kind — with Stanford University physicist Roger Blandford.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped develop a new computer model of plasma stability in doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped develop a new computer model of plasma stability in doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokplasma stability in doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks.

In 1942, Swedish physicist and engineer Hannes Alfvén predicted the existence of a new type of wave due to magnetism acting on a plasma, which led him to obtain the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970.

«Novel plasma jet offshoot phenomenon explains blue atmospheric jets: Physicists identify mysterious right - angle side - jet occurring off the plasma arc in air at ambient pressure conditions.»